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BBC cuts - make your voice heard
DATELINE: 8/3/10
On 2 March the BBC Trust published a proposed strategy for the BBC inviting views from the public and industry on the future direction for the corporation (see NUJ responsearfticle dated 1 March below). It's now time for you to have your say.
One in five staff cull keeps Trinity Mirror in profit
DATELINE: 4/3/10The axing of 1,700 staff and the sale or closure off 30 publications helped the UK's biggest newspaper publisher - Trinity Mirror – stay comfortably in profit in 2009.
Straw acts on libel fees
DATELINE: 4/3/10Jack Straw has taken action to reduce the success fees that lawyers can charge in defamation cases from 100% to 10%. English PEN and Index on Censorship's report on libel law, "Free Speech is Not for Sale" recommended capping base costs and making success fees and After the Event insurance non-recoverable.
NUJ pledges to fight BBC cuts package
DATELINE: 1/3/10The National Union of Journalists has condemned BBC plans to implement a multi-million pound cuts package at the corporation as a desperate pre-election sacrifice. The proposals, which the reports claim have been drawn up by former Tory policy chief and current BBC Director of Policy and Strategy John Tate, include closing two national radio stations - BBC Asian Network and BBC 6 Music, slashing the online budget by 25 per cent, closing the BBC Blast! and BBC Switch websites, in addition to cutting the corporation's website staff by a quarter and disposing of BBC Worldwide's UK magazine titles.
Welcome for decision to drop proposed cabinet papers exemption
DATELINE: 1/3/10The governments announcement that it has dropped its proposal to exempt cabinet papers from the Freedom of Information Act, and that it will reduce the 30 year rule to 20 years, has been welcomed by the Campaign for Freedom of Information. The changes follow a review of the 30 year rule by a committee chaired by Paul Dacre, managing editor of Associated News, and set up by the prime minister. In response to the reviews recommendations, the government announced that old government records would be publicly available in The National Archives after 20 years, instead of the current 30 years (though the review had called for 15-year period). But it also said it would create two new absolute exemptions to the FOI Act, one for cabinet papers and the other for the Royal Family. In neither case would the Acts public interest test apply.
IFJ report on hacking row exposes weakness of UK Press Complaints Commission:
DATELINE: 1/3/10A report prepared for the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) into a controversy over illegal telephone hacking in the tabloid press in Britain says that the country's self-regulator is in need of urgent reform to enhance the reputation of British journalism. The report was commissioned by the IFJ after the British Press Complaints Commission carried out two inquiries following claims of illegal tapping of the telephones of celebrities by journalists at The News of the World, the flagship title of the Rupert Murdoch press in Britain.
BBC announcement is capitulation to Murdoch
NoW accused of tapping 'amnesia'
Stephen Gately the CPBF and the PPC
Gately column complaint rejected
Stars of UK comedy and science stand up against unfair libel laws
A call for greater openness is destroyed by off-the-record quotes
EFJ conference calls on EU to act on media and journalism crisis
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